The Vantage, 308 East 38th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 308 East 38th Street by Carter Horsley

This 22-story apartment building at 308 East 38^th Street on the southwest corner of the Queen Midtown Tunnel Entrance Road between Second and First Avenues in Murray Hill was erected in 2001 by The Clarett Group.

It was designed by Meltzer/Mandl Architects.

It has 94 apartments and was converted from a rental building to a residential condominium in 2017 by Gaia Real Estate, which is headed by Danny Fishman, and the Arco Group which had bought the building, which was formerly known as the Montrose, for $75 million.

It is now known as The Vantage and is across the Tunnel Entrance Road from the Corinthian apartment tower where Gaia had bought 144 rental apartments in 2014 for $147 million.

Andres Escobar did the interiors.

Bottom Line

A boxy residential condominium building with red and gray prefabricated façade panels on the Queens Midtown Tunnel Entrance Road with a small side-street cantilever and a handsome entrance.

Description

The building is clad in pre-fabricated panels of brick and Alucobond (aluminum).  Twelve floors of the tower are cantilevered over the low-rise building to the west.  The lower two floors of the Tunnel Entrance corner the rusticated gray-colored façade while the silver-colored aluminum façade is employed at its tower’s corners framed by the red-color brick panels.  The southeast corner of the building has its lower six floors covered with the brick panels.

The entrance has a hanging, stainless-steel entrance marquee with sidewalk landscaping.

The building is setback above the 14^th floor.

It has discrete air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour doorman, a roof deck, a lobby with a fireplace and a large glass-enclosed lounge and a stair down to a larger residents’ lounge, bicycle storage, live-in superintendent, resident storage, package room with notification screen, and a game room.  The building allows pets.

Apartments

Apartment 22A is a 2-bedroom unit with 1,292 square feet with an entry foyer next to the 11-foot-wide, open kitchen with an island, a 22-foot-long living room and a 9-foot-long dining room.  It has an 18-foot-long master bedroom with an angled wall.

Apartment 16B is a corner, two-bedroom unit with 1,190 square feet with an entry hall that leads past an open, 8-foot-wide kitchen with a breakfast bar, a 10-foot-long dining room and a 20-foot-long living room.

Apartment 16E is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an enclosed and windowed, 11-foot-wide kitchen to a 21-foot-wide living/dining room.

Apartment 19B is a one-bedroom duplex unit with 890 square feet with a 21-foot-long living/dining room and an 11-foot-long enclosed kitchen on the lower level and a 16-foot-long bedroom on the upper level.

Apartment 9F is a one-bedroom unit with 645 square feet with an entrance to a 21-foot-long living/dining room with an angled wall and long hall to an open 8-foot-wide kitchen.